When it comes to the OvalRank, I had to admit, that I had an indirect hand in there.
I noticed Darren's idea of an OvalRank some years ago and I was highly impessed .

The genre simracing was born with David Kaemmers’s release of ‘Indianapolis 500 the simulation’; GPL’s grand-grandfather.
Furthermore, those GPL cars ran on ovals in real, too!! In the north American USAC-Series ran Lotus / Eagle (of course) & Brabham. They had nearly the same technical spec.
So due to the fact, that the whole genre was born on an Oval, and racing on Ovals is very very popular (in real as well in simracing), me and for sure many other GPL drivers (not only die hard fans) would love to see if finally an OvalRank can be generate.
So I convinced Ed Hut from GPLRank by arguing to generate an OvalRank

The reason why I made some minor changes to Darren’s original was, that the tracks in the OvalRank should be as realistic as possible (...it’s a shame, that Langhorne is stuck in alpha state )
Bristol, was a little bit different back in those days & Atlanta looked entirely different.
So in respect of the historical correctness (tracks, these kinds of cars ran on) the OvalRank should include the following tracks:
Indianapolis (Indy 99 version is the most common); Michigan; Milwaukee; Phoenix; Pocono; Rafaela; Trenton.

Well, looking back in these days, the following GPL-Tracks have the correct layout, indeed these cars never races on in real, but they could have! So in order to complete the OvalRank:
Charlotte; Darlington; Daytona & Hickory would fit.

Finally, to have a counterpart to the GPLRank’s Nürburgring, the Grenzlandring (large & difficult Oval) match perfectly to the OvalRank.

All in all this is still Darren's creation; I just gave it a little bump, to make it happen.

Enjoy the Rank and let me point out the fact, that there still exists an Oval-Cup for GPL!!
Everyone is welcome to join the fun and be a part of the EOLC's Oval-Cup; also contains the Highest-Climber-Award as a special.